How do you make the trains run on time? British Rail adopted TOPS, a computer system born of IBM’s SAGE defense project, along with work from Standford and Southern Pacific Railroad. Before TOPS, ...
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In the 1940s, Great Britain nationalized its railway system. In the 1950s, it gradually began losing money and traffic declined, so the leadership looked for ways to reverse the misfortune. They ...